I am off work this week, chilling out at home for a couple of days before taking Mark with me to the cabin for five days. Wendy will be joining us on Friday night when she brings Oliver up.
As for projects this week, they are the following.
Home:
- Tossing out a lot of water damaged goods and weeding out my personal library. I plan to get rid of about 400 books before this entire process is over.
- Finishing the Adirondack chairs. We are painting them with a cranberry coloured door paint which should slow the pealing and the fading. The none stop rain has slowed this project down.
Cabin:
- Trying to decide if a half dead tree at the side of the cabin can be saved. If it can’t, I am going to take it down.
- Levelling the front step. There are some tree roots there that are causing me problems that I am going to have to deal with in getting the steps done.
- I am going to decide on how I want the patio or if I want a deck at the front. The area at the front I want to use is on quite a slope and I am trying to decide if I want to go high and over it or cut into the ground and keep it low. High! Low! I sound like Grover.
- Putting together a bed frame for Wendy’s and mine bed at the cabin.
Mark and I have some plans as well. We want to do some hiking north of the cabin along the lake and then teach him to cook with fire over the firepit and the barbecue. If that doesn’t work well, we went to Costco and bought some chimichangas to microwave.
We bought Mark five classic Hardy Boys books today so even if we don’t bond, he will know how to fight crime by the time the week is up.
